Book world news from Pulpfiction Books, 2422 Main Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Updated as time permits. Correspondence to pulpbook@gmail.com, or visit us at pulpfictionbooksvancouver.com

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Tomorrow, Wednesday June 1st, Olympia writer Jim Lynch visits Main Street from 7 to 9pm to read from his new novel Before the Wind. Lynch's lyrical Pacific Northwest family sagas have earned comparison to everything from Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion to Steinbeck's Cannery Row, & his previous novel The Highest Tide has been a perennial PFB bestseller since its release in 2005.

Nothing special is planned for Sunday June 12th, which is PFB's 16th
anniversary. Always kind of a surprise when the date rolls around; it
feels more like a very busy eight or twelve weeks, but the calendar
& my brow furrows apparently think otherwise.

On Thursday, June 16th, our good friend Sam Wiebe, author of the terrific debut Vancouver-based noir novel Last of the Independents, which many crime-loving PFB regulars read & enjoyed, launches his second novel, Invisible Dead, at Main Street from 7 to 9pm. This launch will be very busy; if you want a seat, plan to arrive by 6:30 or so.

On Friday, June 17th, PFB's third-ever customer, SFU's Clint Burnham,
will be in house from 7-9pm to read from his new collection of poems, Pound @ GuntAnamo. Clint will be joined by special guest reader/performers Jordan Abel and Shazia Hafiz Ramji.

As always, these events are free and open to the public. Most have free box wine and/or snacks.

Finally, two miscellaneous notes:

1. Our friends at the SFU library are bringing perennial PFB bestseller Maggie Nelson (Bluets; The Argonauts)
to Vancouver in January 2017! Still a ways off, but we are obviously
stoked by the prospect of a free Maggie Nelson lecture at SFU Woodwards,
and several days of events on Burnaby Mountain! More details in the
fall.

2. Question #1 at the desk: "What are the regulars reading?" We're not
Oprah and this isn't our book club, but a few recent titles that have
been mega-popular among folks we're on a first-name basis with include: